Creative Creases

 Good Morning everyone

Today im honoured to be a guest designer over at creative-creases-challenge

I decided to try a new fold for me a 'double vertical stepper card' which was perfect for using this beautiful peach and grey paper pad from Kanban which ive had for years.  I love with this fold that i get to use lots of the different papers together.  

I made my base card out of cream cardstock - the finished folded up size is 5x5" and it squashes closed to fit into an envelope. The side folds are  1" 1" 2" & 2" and the back panel 5"   but can easily be adjusted to any size.  The band across the middle helps it to keep its shape and easily stand up.

I got cutting up the papers for the panels, covering both the sides of the side panels as they can all be seen when its on display. 

I had some matching vellum so die cut that into a flower, the vellum has gold foil highlights as do some of the papers which is why i went with gold satin card for my die cut leaves - this also helped break up the colour a bit.  I die cut a circle for my flower to sit on and added this to the belly band of the card.  A nice peach pearl in the centre of the flower to finish. 

I stamped some butterflies onto one of the peach papers, cut them out and adhered to look like they are flying around the panels.  I added a touch of diamond stickles to their bodies and wings for a bit of sparkle. 

and the back of the card, i used more of the papers, die cut a circle from more cream cardstock as a place to write the greeting and added a stamped happy birthday in grey ink. I also added another of the smaller butterflies.

Items Used:

Uniko Ltd stamps (butterflies) 'English country garden'

Woodware sentiment stamp 'A birthday moment' JGS718

Kanban paper pad & vellum 'Apricot dreams' 

Craft UK ltd A3 smooth cream cardstock

Crafters companion gold satin cardstock

Stitched circle dies

Leaf die

Ranger stickles 'diamond'

Thank you all for stopping by and please do hop over to creative creases to join in with your fancy folds. Emma

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Id love to also enter the following:

 

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

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https://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2024/04/challenge-206-ag-beautiful-butterflies.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-challenge.html

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https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-anything-goes-wopitional.html - flowers

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